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A potential mechanism for targeting aggregates with proteasomes and disaggregases in liquid droplets
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Author(s)
Mee Hayes, Emma
Sirvio, Liina
Ye, Yu
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Insoluble protein deposits are hallmarks of neurodegenerative disorders and common forms of dementia. The aberrant aggregation of misfolded proteins involves a complex cascade of events that occur over time, from the cellular to the clinical phase of neurodegeneration. Declining neuronal health through increased cell stress and loss of protein homeostasis (proteostasis) functions correlate with the accumulation of aggregates. On the cellular level, increasing evidence supports that misfolded proteins may undergo liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS), which is emerging as an important process to drive protein aggregation. Studying the reverse process of aggregate disassembly and degradation has only recently gained momentum, following reports of enzymes with distinct aggregate-disassembly activities. In this review, we will discuss how the ubiquitin-proteasome system and disaggregation machineries such as VCP/p97 and HSP70 system may disassemble and/or degrade protein aggregates. In addition to their canonically associated functions, these enzymes appear to share a common feature: reversibly assembling into liquid droplets in an LLPS-driven manner. We review the role of LLPS in enhancing the disassembly of aggregates through locally increasing the concentration of these enzymes and their co-proteins together within droplet structures. We propose that such activity may be achieved through the concerted actions of disaggregase machineries, the ubiquitin-proteasome system and their co-proteins, all of which are condensed within transient aggregate-associated droplets (TAADs), ultimately resulting in aggregate clearance. We further speculate that sustained engagement of these enzymatic activities within TAADs will be detrimental to normal cellular functions, where these activities are required. The possibility of facilitating endogenous disaggregation and degradation activities within TAADs potentially represents a novel target for therapeutic intervention to restore protein homeostasis at the early stages of neurodegeneration.
Date Acceptance
2022-02-18
Citation
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 14
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/96458
URL
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.854380/full
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.854380
ISSN
1663-4365
Publisher
Frontiers Media
Journal / Book Title
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Volume
14
Copyright Statement
© 2022 Mee Hayes, Sirvio and Ye. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
License URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Sponsor
UK Dementia Research Institute
Identifier
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2022.854380/full
Subjects
0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology
1109 Neurosciences
1702 Cognitive Sciences
Publication Status
Published online
Date Publish Online
2022-04-06
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